Breitbart News can confirm that Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance will accompany Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk’s casket as it is transported to Phoenix, Arizona, aboard Air Force Two.

Sources familiar with the plans confirmed them to Breitbart News. The Vances visited with Kirk’s family in Utah on Thursday ahead of the flight to Phoenix.

Vance issued a touching tribute to Kirk on X Wednesday night, reminiscing on their nearly decade-long friendship.

“He wasn’t just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. ‘You focus on Wisconsin,’ he’d tell me. ‘Arizona is in the bag.’ And it was,” Vance wrote, referri

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